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On Fri, 2/5/16, Andre Poremski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] "..us" to "..a" in species name
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Received: Friday, February 5, 2016, 7:45 AM
Brilliant!
Thanks so much all. I feel thoroughly educated on the matter
:)
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 5:33
PM, Roland Houart <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
Hi Andre,
In the case of Ocenebra erinaceus
(Linnaeus, 1758): The
first letter of the name erinaceus
was written in capital by Linnaeus which means it was a
noun, thus "hedgehog"
in Latin. It is not an adjective and doesn't need to
agree in gender with the
genus name. Thus Ocenebra erinaceus is correct and
Ocenebra erinacea not.
Cheers
Roland
2016-02-04 22:08 GMT+01:00
Andre Poremski <[log in to unmask]>:
And thank
you Susan/Ed :)
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 4:07
PM, Andre Poremski <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
Thank you
David! That is super helpful!
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 4:03
PM, David Campbell <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
-us to -a
is a common (though not always correct) pattern of change
from a masculine to a feminine form of an adjective, and -um
is the commonest neuter ending. If a specific epithet is
an adjective, which it usually is, it should grammatically
agree in gender with the genus, which is always a noun. If
a species is transferred from one genus to another, or if
the species name was grammatically incorrect, or if the
genus turns out to not be the grammatical gender that some
people thought that it was, then it is often necessary to
correct the ending of the specific epithet. For example,
you can find many references to Toxolasma parvus. However,
Toxolasma seems to actually be neuter, so it should be
Toxolasma parvum.
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016
at 3:26 PM, Andre Poremski <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
Can
someone please explain to me why I am seeing so many
revisions of the species name from "...us" to
"...a". For example, from "Ocenebra
erinaceus" to "Ocenebra
erinacea".
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